The Beatles wouldn't have become the band they eventually were without Ravi Shankar.
The iconic Indian sitar player and composer, who schooled George Harrison in Eastern music...4 years ago via E!Online

Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight-decade career, has died. He was 92.4 years ago via Associated Press